This adorable pod will give you voice control over your smart home
LoveLinkU has software embedded within it that allows you to use your voice to send commands to smart devices around your house.
This $14,000 coffee maker doesn’t need wasteful pods to make drinks
BKON has created a commercial drink maker, known as Craft Brewer, that retails around $14,000. It is currently being used by the commercial market.
This device may soon help families and children living with night terrors
The Lully Sleep Guardian is designed to prevent night terrors with gentle pulses and vibrations
This hacked toy can open many garage doors in seconds
Samy Kamkar, a security researcher, has found a way to hack a common Mattel toy to turn it into a universal garage door opener. He calls its OpenSesame.
A U.K. startup wants to use graphene to heat your home
Xefro has created a graphene-based heating system that can reduce energy costs up to 70 percent.
Put pHin in your pool, and it orders exactly what you need to keep it clean
Cleaning a pool is a pain, and pHin is a smart pool device that promises to make it easier. It monitors your water quality and automatically orders new supplies when things start to get funky.
One day, you might use brain power to control your smart home devices
The technology works like an electroencephalogram, or EEG. This is a device that people are already using to record brain waves with sensors.
Room in a Box lets you pack up your apartment in 30 minutes
Room in a Box is exactly what it sounds like – all of the assets you need to create a room, conveniently packed into one neat box.
This underground concept house has all the water it needs
Architect Jie Zhang has created the Thirsty House concept. The structure is designed to collect and filter enough water for it to be self-sufficient.
Would you lease your window space to advertisers to make a few extra bucks?
Add My Window is allowing city dwellers to rent out their windows as advertising space to make a few extra bucks.
IKEA wants your light bulbs to help you control your smart home
The Swedish furniture company is working with Frog Design to create an affordable smart home lighting system called the Home Smart II Lighting Collection.
Awair is a smart device that measures your air quality then turns on the purifier
AWAIR has advanced sensors that measure your air quality. With this data, it programs itself based on settings you provide for your home.
Neato promises more fur collection for your buck with its new robot vacs
Neato announced on May 27 that it would be releasing a new line of vacuums designed for the modern homeowner.
Want your drink hot, iced, or fizzy? This machine makes them all
Michigan-based Whirlpool has now teamed up with Anheuser-Bush InBev to sell a new appliance for beverage creation, known as B.blend.
Totally buggin’: A scientist is developing an LED that attracts fewer insects
Researcher Travis Longcore was able to find that he could tune the Philips LED bulbs to attract 20 percent less insects.
Cree’s BR30 flood light is the latest LED to go below $10
The BR30 bulb, which was originally priced at about $15, will now be sold for less than $10 on the market.